Wina Hathaway

13 books

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Humorous Fiction

416

Mary Roberts Rinehart - More Tish

Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The series led to a 1942 movie with Marjorie Main. This particular book, the...

Jennifer Dorr and 5 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

498

Anna Katharine Green - Mayor's Wife

Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is to be the companion to the Mayor's wife. The Lady is unhappy, and the reason...

Christian Mitchell and 10 more 7 hours 6 minutes

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Animals & Nature

495

Andrew Lang - Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew...

Richard Kilmer and 13 more 10 hours 2 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Detective Fiction

498

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Confession

Mary Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the «Had I but known» mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parsonage at Miss Emily's request she soon came to regret it. Was the house haunted? Did Miss...

Wina Hathaway 3 hours 16 minutes

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General Fiction

512

L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces

Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her money and estate from her fiancé, Thomas Bradley, who died before their wedding...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 5 hours 18 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Detective Fiction

584

Anna Katharine Green - Woman in the Alcove

«I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.» Thus begins...

Wina Hathaway and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

506

Anna Katharine Green - Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally...

Nichole Karl and 8 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

467

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Case of Jennie Brice

The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder has been committed at her boarding house. Jennifer Ladley aka Jennie...

Wina Hathaway 3 hours 56 minutes

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Children's Fiction

458

Yei Theodora Ozaki - Japanese Fairy Tales

First published in 1908, this is a book of «beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan» that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also...

Scott Robbins and 9 more 7 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

481

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 7 hours 40 minutes

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Literary Fiction

669

Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son....

Gesine and 17 more 18 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

628

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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